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cornucopia|ˌkɔːnjuːˈkəʊpɪə|
Also -copiæ.
[A late L. form, written as one word, of the earlier cornū cōpiæ ‘horn of plenty’; fabled to be the horn of the goat Amalthea by which the infant Zeus was suckled; the symbol of fruitfulness and plenty.]
The horn of plenty; a goat's horn represented in art as overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn.
1592Greene Maiden's Dream Poems 133 [Hospitality] With her cornucopia in her fist. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. 3 Men talke of Cornu-copia, that it had all things necessary for foode in it. 1623Ford Sun's Darling iv. i, When Plenty, Summer's daughter, empties daily Her Cornucopia, filled with choicest viands. 1670R. Lassels Voy. Italy II. 327 Candlesticks of pure gold made like cornucopias. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) V. 117 Small head in an oval frame, with cornucopiæs and stone-work. 1794Sullivan View Nat. IV. 197 Ceres..with her bounteous cornucopia. 1872Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxviii. 9 The Lord, as from a cornucopia, shook out blessings upon it [the earth]. 1878Bates Centr. Amer. iii. 24.
b. An ornamental vessel or receptacle shaped like the horn of plenty.
1863G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 267 A flagon or two of wine, and a golden cornucopia of fruit and flowers.
c. fig. An overflowing stock or store.
1611Coryat Crudities To Rdr., Fertill territories replenished with a very Cornucopia of al manner of commodities. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. vi. §11 That County [Cornwall] is the Cornu-copia of saints. 1724Swift Corninna Wks. 1775 III. ii. 154 Her common-place book..Of scandal..a cornucopia. 1853C. Brontë Villette xix, My sympathy desired to keep its cornucopia replenished.
d. humorously. The ‘horn’ of cuckoldry.
1600J. Lane Tom Tel-troth 675 With cornucopia, Cornewall and the horne Which their bad wiues bid from their bed be sent. 1878J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads 294 The ironical praise of Cuckolds..may be studied with advantage by mature students, who do not believe that the Cornucopia was a new ornament. |